Edible cake and method of making same.



W. W. DE BEVOISE.

EDIBLE CAKE AND METHOD-0F MAKING SAME.

APP LIOATION IILED AUG. 29. 1911.-

Patented Mar. 19, 1912.

-- UNiTE STA PATENT OFFICE. I

WALTER w. pnBEvoIsE, F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

EnIB E alike AND METHOD or MAKING SAME.

Speeification'of Letters Patent. Patented Mar. 19, 1912.-

' Application filed August 29, 1911. Serial Noi 646,68L'

f To all whom it may concern."

)Beit known that I, WAL'rin: XV. DE BitvoIsE,' a citizen of the United States, re-

siding, at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Edible Cakes and .Methodof Making. Same, of which the? following is a specification. The present invention relates speclfically to peanut candy and method of making,

and for the purposes of this disclosure I have] illustrated "and described such an arti- "cle and method ofmaking it, butit will be forth, as "-thisdisclosure is merely illustralri orderthat the invention may be better Y 'under$, 00d "I'haye-illustrate'd,in the draw 125' these; drawings understood that the invention is not limited .to the particular embodiment herein set tive and not restrictive of the invention, for it-will bequite obvious that the invention is applicablefto the making of a variety of 'edible substances formed; of a mixture of ,suitable vegetable ingredients, and a Sllltable vehicle for-binder.

ings herewith,0neembodiment o-f.it, and in --j1F-lgl]I6 "1 isa plan view of a peanut cake, madejln'aceordance w1th my mvention, Fig.

v2 is a sectional view of the cake shown in Fig. 1, 3I'isa view similar to Fig. 2,

showing iagrammatically. a molding or sha ping plate with a cake deposited thereon, I T h'ekb object of the invention is to produce a cake ,the appearance of which 'is indicafive of the vegetable ingredients commingledwith the vehicle or binder, even though these ingredients are broken and not of their original or naturalform, as for example, the form of a peanut kernelvor meat,

as inthevpresent disclosure I accomplish this object/by shaping artificially, preferably by molding, a surface'ofthe cake in imitation of a plurality of peanut kernels or meats, so that the appearance of the cake indieatesto the'f'purchaser that the article Y isia mixture of peanut, ,nieat and a suitable vehicle, one example'of which is chocolate.

Referring to the'drawings by numerals, 1 indicates the cake which may, of, course, be .of any form, that shown in the present embodimentsbeing round and having a fiat under-surface, the u per surface 2 of the article being artificia 1y shaped, preferably.

by molds, so as to bear a plurality of rounded projections which imitate whole-peanut binder.

meats incased in the chocolate vehicle or On reference to Figs l and 2, it will be "observed that the nut ingredients 3 are distributed throughoutihe body ofthe cake, but that the surface of the cake is practically unbroken'by any protruding nut fragments, so that there is nothing to destroy the ap-- pearance on the surface of the cake of whole meats. This condition and, this particular distribution of the nut ingredients is secured by practicing the following method: The .chocolate vehicle or binderjs of greater specific gravity than the nut ingredients, and when the batch has been.

properly made by stirring into a melted chocolate hinder the proper proportion of nut fragments, such admixture is placed in t molds, as diagrammatically shown in Fig. 3, a

the semi-plastic mass being forced into the mold facesin any suitable manner to give the desired artificial surface formation. The vehicle or hinder being of greater specific gravity than the nut fragments will settle'close to the niold and willchill rapidly,'the lighter nut fragments tending to move upwardly in the semi'plastic.mass. This will result in giving to the finished surface of the cake'a smooth, unbroken skin or shell of the chocolate vehicle or hinder without exposing the nut-fragments or breaking the appearance of the finished surface, it having been found in actual p1;ac-

tice that the nut fragments, whileevenly distributed throughout the cake, tend to floatfupwardly and are, to some extent, ex-

posed on the unfinished or underside of the ized inthe production of a very palatable nut candy of high grade, whereasein the manufacture of nut candies of this general type heretofore it has been customary to utilizevonly the whole kernels which, were dipped and molded together in various ways.

As indicated I do not limit myself to-the particular disclosure herein made or the specific vegetable ingredients, as obviously any of the nuts used in candy-making, as well as other vegetable products may be.

' similarly treated without departing from my invention.

I claim 1. As a new article of manufacture, an edible cake composed of a 'co'coa vehicle or cially in imitation of a plurality of nut f meats, and intermixed'nut' ingredients, said nutingredients lying Wholly within thebody of the vehicle and'away from the arti ficiall'y shaped'surface so asto' leave said shaped surface smooth and unbroken by pro- .truding nut ingredients. 7 4:- As a new article of manufacture, an edible cake composed of a digestible vehicle or binder and intermixed nut. ingredients, :1 surface-of said cake being shaped artificially in imitation ofa plurality of unbroken meats.

5. The method of making nut candies,

Which consists in first intermixing nutingredients with a vehicle or binder of greater specific gravity, and then shaping artifi-'- cially the vehicle or binder at the surface of" the c'ake in imitation of the nutingredientsand quickly coolingthe under-surfaceof the batch';-. Whereby an unbroken finishing 45 surface of the binder material will be 'se-" vcured. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses. y v t 'WALTERWxDE BEVQISE.

Witnesses: 1

' R. WILFRED KEAs r,

A. N. Dn Bnvorsn. 

